Roger Taylor
Roger Meddows Taylor was born on 26th July 1949 in King's Lynn, Norfolk, England is best known for being the drummer in famous rock group, Queen. He was the first member of Queen to launch a solo career, although it was not widely successful. He has released five albums; Fun In Space (1981), Strange Frontier (1984), Happiness? (1994) and Electric Fire (1998). The latest album, Fun On Earth, was released in November 2013.
Before Queen, Taylor founded Smile with Brian May. Read Full BioRoger Meddows Taylor was born on 26th July 1949 in King's Lynn, Norfolk, England is best known for being the drummer in famous rock group, Queen. He was the first member of Queen to launch a solo career, although it was not widely successful. He has released five albums; Fun In Space (1981), Strange Frontier (1984), Happiness? (1994) and Electric Fire (1998). The latest album, Fun On Earth, was released in November 2013.
Before Queen, Taylor founded Smile with Brian May. Smile released one album in Japan which is now available throughout the world as Ghost of a Smile. Smile wrote a few of the songs which would later appear on Queen's self-titled debut album, and one - Doin' Alright was featured on the Smile album.
Taylor also fronted another band, The Cross from 1987 to 1991. The first album, Shove it (1988) was a solo album by Taylor in all but name - he wrote all the songs and played most of the instruments himself. This was an experiment that didn't really work for Taylor and in the other two albums by The Cross he allowed the other members of the band to contribute more, resulting in more traditionally styled rock albums.
Out of the four original members of Queen Taylor and guitarist Brian May continued to play as Queen + Paul Rodgers between 2004 and 2008. Of the other original members singer Freddie Mercury tragically died in 1991 and bassist John Deacon retired from music business in the mid-1990's.
In 2009, after the partnership between him, Brian and Paul ended, Roger worked on some new solo material from which his single The Unblinking Eye (Everything is Broken) was digitally released at 23th November at Queenonline.com. At the moment it is unclear how the future of Queen will look like, though Roger has announced that he will do a short tour in the spring of 2010.
Before Queen, Taylor founded Smile with Brian May. Read Full BioRoger Meddows Taylor was born on 26th July 1949 in King's Lynn, Norfolk, England is best known for being the drummer in famous rock group, Queen. He was the first member of Queen to launch a solo career, although it was not widely successful. He has released five albums; Fun In Space (1981), Strange Frontier (1984), Happiness? (1994) and Electric Fire (1998). The latest album, Fun On Earth, was released in November 2013.
Before Queen, Taylor founded Smile with Brian May. Smile released one album in Japan which is now available throughout the world as Ghost of a Smile. Smile wrote a few of the songs which would later appear on Queen's self-titled debut album, and one - Doin' Alright was featured on the Smile album.
Taylor also fronted another band, The Cross from 1987 to 1991. The first album, Shove it (1988) was a solo album by Taylor in all but name - he wrote all the songs and played most of the instruments himself. This was an experiment that didn't really work for Taylor and in the other two albums by The Cross he allowed the other members of the band to contribute more, resulting in more traditionally styled rock albums.
Out of the four original members of Queen Taylor and guitarist Brian May continued to play as Queen + Paul Rodgers between 2004 and 2008. Of the other original members singer Freddie Mercury tragically died in 1991 and bassist John Deacon retired from music business in the mid-1990's.
In 2009, after the partnership between him, Brian and Paul ended, Roger worked on some new solo material from which his single The Unblinking Eye (Everything is Broken) was digitally released at 23th November at Queenonline.com. At the moment it is unclear how the future of Queen will look like, though Roger has announced that he will do a short tour in the spring of 2010.
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Happiness
by Roger Taylor
There's just one thing
That we all crave
From the cradle
To the grave
A state of grace
A point in space
Or point in time
In time of peace
In times of war
The self same goal
That we yearn for
Some have it all
But still have less
What we all need is happiness
Happiness is what you need
Yeah happiness is all around
It's not easy to define it
It can't easily be found
No it can't easily be found
It can't easily be found
You know that it's true
'Cause happiness
Just can't be bought
Such purity more precious still than gold
And happiness
Can't just be taught
When you're young or if you're old
No matter how - how hard you try
In your own life, and through your years
With every up - must come a down
Enjoy the laughter and the tears
Of happiness
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Written by: WENDY PAGE, JAMES MARR, DOLPH TAYLOR
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
by Roger Taylor
There's just one thing
That we all crave
From the cradle
To the grave
A state of grace
A point in space
Or point in time
In time of peace
In times of war
The self same goal
That we yearn for
Some have it all
But still have less
What we all need is happiness
Happiness is what you need
Yeah happiness is all around
It's not easy to define it
It can't easily be found
No it can't easily be found
It can't easily be found
You know that it's true
'Cause happiness
Just can't be bought
Such purity more precious still than gold
And happiness
Can't just be taught
When you're young or if you're old
No matter how - how hard you try
In your own life, and through your years
With every up - must come a down
Enjoy the laughter and the tears
Of happiness
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Written by: WENDY PAGE, JAMES MARR, DOLPH TAYLOR
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
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michelle88960
Love Roger's voice. But why do people with beautiful eyes always wear sunglasses? Paul Newman did the same. You can't hide them Roger, we know they are behind them specs.
Martin Pitts
Because he was very nearsighted and he wore the sunglasses on stage because of all of the bright lights. They are prescription.
Денис Баринов
Just amazing, just outstanding, just the kind of magic
Stefano Pavone
Correct - an unfortunate case of photosensitivity.
grachi sol
michelle88960 I believe those are prescription sunglasses.
Ant Smith
Rogers solo work is vastly underrated.
Totally different from queen..
Refreshing change..
Marc Moingeon
Roger Taylor did some very good songs and albums, it's just a pity they didn't reach the deserved success. Happiness is a very good album, probably his best, indeed. More relaxed, more organic sounding too, quite often, with still his very personal "electronic edge".
Roger Taylor is certainly one of the very rare singers with a hoarse voice that I really love. His voice has got something that I've always liked a lot.
James Hodgson
One of the most underrated singers ever, somewhat upstaged by the legendary Freddie Mercury but watch old queen shows and you can see Roger helping Freddie out on some of the high notes as Freddie drops an octave!
OldSchool Zap
Why the hell this 3 diislikes? Are you kidding me
Lorraine Cimino
But what's to dislike???